d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus vs mastodon/mastodon
mastodon/mastodon shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, mastodon shows healthier maintenance signals than homebrew-emacs-plus. mastodon rates Healthy overall while homebrew-emacs-plus rates Mixed. homebrew-emacs-plus last saw a commit 4 months ago with 4+ active contributors, while mastodon was committed to 1 week ago with 11+ active contributors. homebrew-emacs-plus is MIT-licensed while mastodon is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 86% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
mastodon/mastodon
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| homebrew-emacs-plus | mastodon | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2,860 | 50,273 |
| Last commit | 4mo ago | 10d ago |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 7 | 4,524 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 29% | 46% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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